Louisiana AWB Resolution Narrowly Fails
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 10 months ago
SHREVEPORT, La. – The Caddo Parish Commission’s proposed resolution urging state lawmakers to strengthen the state’s gun laws and ban automatic weapons failed to win majority approval at Thursday’s meeting.
The commission voted 6 to 6 on the resolution authored by Commissioner Lyndon Johnson that brought out a full house of citizens opposed to the measure. The tie vote means the resolution failed and will not advance to the Legislature.
The resolution that came out of Tuesday’s work session sought to encourage the Legislature to change gun laws by setting mandatory requirements for owning and carrying a firearm as well as making it illegal to possess and use assault weapons, which were described as full automatic and semi-automatic with magazines/clips over 20 rounds. The only exception was for active military or law enforcement.
So gun owners in this Parish have a lot of work to do. Six of the commissioners need to be thrown to the curb.
On February 24, 2020 at 10:34 am, Fred said:
That it was even introduced by the legislature is a testament to the NRA, which got the LA Constitution modified to allow regulation of guns.